Dr. Adam Hart
1 min readNov 8, 2024

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This is a sensible question - what is intelligence, would we redefine it through discovery - most likely as in any field!- Do we have a workable consensus definition now? Probably not. Was it Dr. Hinton who said calling a neural network AI is an unfortunate label? if you follow footnote [1] you'll see a quote on what one definition of intelligence is. Some neuroscientists think of intelligence as an emergent property of the complexity of the mind. Coupled with this is the fact that the Descartian mind/body duality is at the root of a lot of mechanistic thinking (like the deep belief I refer to in this essay) yet the mind and body are not divisible - such that it may be intelligence is a property of "embodiment" - that we have a body that operates in the physical world means intelligence (and imagination and delusion) emerges. Deeply mechanistic dualist thinking is an 18th century notion yet perhaps it is alive and well in the community!!

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